Pride Identity Flags – Trans, Bi, Pan, Non-Binary & Ace

Pride identity flags: one flag for every letter

The rainbow flag speaks for the whole LGBTQ+ community, but since the 1990s each identity within it has designed a flag of its own, and the identity flags are now what people carry at Pride, hang in a classroom or a youth group and fly from the house for a visibility day. The transgender flag was created by Monica Helms in 1999, light blue and pink for the traditional baby colours with white in the middle for those transitioning or outside the binary, drawn so it is the same whichever way up it flies. The bisexual flag is Michael Page’s 1998 design of magenta, lavender and blue, the lavender band for the overlap. The pansexual flag of 2010 uses pink, yellow and cyan; the non-binary flag designed by Kye Rowan in 2014 runs yellow, white, purple and black; the asexual flag chosen by the AVEN community in 2010 is black, grey, white and purple; and the lesbian sunset flag of 2018 fades from dark orange through white to dark pink. Each one on this page is printed through the cloth with the stripe order and the shades checked against the community’s own specification, because a trans flag with the pink at the top or a bi flag with the lavender too wide is the first thing anyone at a Pride will notice.

Sixty more identities

Beyond the big six there is a flag here for almost every identity that has one: genderfluid, agender, genderqueer, bigender, demiboy and demigirl on the gender side; aromantic, aroace, demisexual, greysexual, omnisexual and abrosexual on the orientation side; the labrys, lipstick and five-stripe sunset lesbian flags; the gay men’s flag in greens, white and blues; the intersex flag of a purple ring on yellow and the intersex-inclusive Progress Pride flag; and the older trans flag and the trans symbol flag for anyone who wants the alternative designs. The hashtag flags put the colours behind a #PRIDE for a parade, and the bear, leather and other community flags are on the other Pride flags page.

Pride month, visibility days and the rest of the year

June is Pride month, but the UK Pride season runs from Birmingham in May through London in late June or early July, Brighton and Manchester over the August bank holidays and on to the smaller town Prides into September, and every one of them has a trans, bi, non-binary or ace block marching under its own colours. The visibility days spread the rest across the calendar: Trans Day of Visibility on 31 March, Lesbian Visibility Week in late April, Pansexual Visibility Day on 24 May, Non-Binary People’s Day on 14 July, Bi Visibility Day on 23 September, Ace Week in late October, Intersex Awareness Day on 26 October and Trans Day of Remembrance on 20 November. Schools, universities, NHS trusts, councils, libraries and employers’ LGBT networks fly the flags on those days and for the whole of June, which is why the main identities come in the heavier DuraFlag grade for a flagpole as well as Flagtex for the parade.

Sizes, grades and fittings

The transgender, bisexual, pansexual, non-binary, asexual, aromantic, agender, genderfluid, lesbian and intersex-inclusive flags are stocked in 20x12in, 3ft x 2ft, 5ft x 3ft and 8ft x 5ft in Flagtex woven polyester, with a DuraFlag knitted-polyester option for an outdoor pole and a choice of eyelets, clips or a rope and toggle. Most of the rarer identities come as a 5ft x 3ft Flagtex flag with eyelets, the size that hangs on a bedroom wall, a classroom or a stall and flies on a hand pole at the march.

Pride bunting

Transgender bunting, bi pride bunting, pansexual bunting and asexual bunting come in 3m, 5m, 9m, 12m and 20m rectangle lengths, a triangle cut for a tea party, and a giant 18.25m length with oversized pennants for a parade route or a hall; non-binary bunting runs to 20m, Progress Pride and intersex-inclusive bunting come in 3m, 9m and giant, and the lesbian sunset bunting is a triangle cut in 5m, 12m and 20m. Mix several identities along one tape for a youth group, a staff network or a Pride stall; the whole range is under Pride bunting.

Hand flags, table flags and bandanas

Hand flags on wooden sticks in 9x6in and 18x12in are what the parade blocks carry, and they are stocked for the trans, bi, pan, non-binary, asexual, lesbian, gay men’s, Progress and intersex-inclusive flags, sold singly and in packs. The 6x4in table flags with base, from the trans table flag to the non-binary table flag, sit on a reception desk, a stall or a school library shelf, with satin versions on a chrome base for an office, and the trans, bi and pan bandanas are for the dog, the wrist or the back pocket at the march.

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• Transgender Flag (20x12in to 8x5ft, 2 grades)from £6.99
• Bi-Pride Flagfrom £6.99
• Pansexual Flagfrom £6.99
• Non-Binary Flagfrom £6.99
• Lesbian Sunset Stripes Flagfrom £6.99
• Asexual Flagfrom £6.99
• Transgender Bunting (3m to 20m)from £9.98
• Transgender Hand Flagsfrom £5.99